Garment hanger



2, 1950 c. P. LONGWELL ETAL 2,506,510

' GARMENT HANGER Filed D66. 2, 1947 INVENTOR CHARLES I? LONGWELL ANNA MC ANANY LON6WELL Patented May 2, 1950 GARMENT ERN'GER,

Charles P .lLongwell;ankIAnn-a.McAnany.I

Longwell, Ford"City, Pa.

ApplicationDecember 2, I'M-"l, Scti'aLNbtiSSgWZ This invention pertains to an improved hang-er ffjorgarments,; and particularly, to a. hanger that may be-employed to hold garments in place and prevent, wrinkling. Onephase of "our invention dealstwith. a collapsible hanger suitable fortravelusageand that 'may be employed to support apluralityofgarments, skirts, trousers,,-etc., f-ram. waist-band portions thereof.

An-obg'ect of our invention has been toprovide ,amimproved, simplified,candimoreefllcient type ref-garmen-t hanger;

- Another object has been to device a hanger eonstruction which: may be employed to support :one-ora-pluralityof garments insuch a manner that; wrinkling is prevented;

v Afurther objecthas been toprovide a hanger that may-be .efiectively employed for separately supporting a plurality of garments;

A still. further object-has been tov provide a collapsible, multi-part; fool-proof hanger that may 'bestored, or carried; in a collapsed relationship.-

I-heseand many-other objects of our inven- :tion will appear to those skilled inthe artv from the illnstrated' embodiments thereof.

Inthe. drawings:

Figure-1 is. auvertical side view in-elevationof a hanger constructed in accordance with my invention and showing its parts in! aneXtended-or expanded relationship;

Fig:11re;2 isaside view inelevation takenv along the left-hand side of Figure-.11;

Figure13: is anenlargedvside vertical detail taken along: the'1ineIII -I=I-I"of- Figure 1 and Figure 4 is an en arged fragmental detail in J partial section taken: along the line IVIV of Figure 6 is an end view inelevation showing the hanger of Figure. 1. in. a collapsed or folded relationship to conserve space;

' Referring particularly'to Figure 1 of the d rawings, the illustrated hanger structure, as a whole, is indicated by the numeral I 0. As will be noted, the hanger comprises a plurality of pivotally connected parts ll, IIa, lib, and He, respectively. The parts beginning with the numeral Ila are constructed and arranged to be pivotally suspended from a preceding part such as I I, I l a, and III) and to hang vertically downwardly therefrom. The upper part II is provided with a hook l8 which may be removably mounted on a nail, a hook, a knob, or a pole. In accordance with -aspreferredembodiment of our. invention, the individual parts I l, I; la, etc; "are of a unitary metal vii-reconstruction,

The: upper part II of the frame. is: provided with a pair at transversely-outwardly extending and.downwardly-incli-ned shoulders I! which. are

connected together at their upper portions-by la twistshank- I-8a. The lower. or'vertical sideportions; 5 of the? parrot. shoulders I b extendtlongitudinally and vertically.- downwardly ande are-iconnected :to "short: length, --longitudinall -y'-ofiset, transversely-extending,bar endtportions IA. li'he bar end portions I4 are connectedattheirrmner ends to longitudinalLy-extending, short length,

transversely-offset stop portions 1-3., The offset stop-portions 53 are connected at-their. lower-ends to. atransverse cross-bar 1-2. It thus. maybe said slightly shorter than the-widthtot the garments that. rare. to be' supporteds-see Figure 5. It will thus'be apparent that agarment, such-v as Z-I or 2-2- can be'supported by the clips IH- in: such a manner that its. widthportion/ or waist. bandwill be. transversely stretched. This not only prevents wrinkling of lower hanging portions or -a garment, but also is advantageouswhen the .ga-rmenthasbeen washed: or cleaned and is being-dried. Garmentsmaybehungon the hanger at our .'invention. without: being wrinkled, even when. recently pressed:

The-detailscf-a suitable form-=ofi clip 19 are illustrated" in. Figures. 3 and". 4.. This clip, "as shown, may comprise a pairof fingers ofplastic, wood, or of'a.-rust-res-isting metal and are-non- -mally held in a. pivotally closedrelationship with respect to each other by a support "and? pi-vat spring 20. Such a clip may be of any conventional construction.

To simplify the description of the structure, we have employed the same numerals for corresponding portions of the parts II, Ila, Nb, and He. Referring, for example, to the part II a, it will be seen that it consists of a frame shaped similarly to the lower portion of the frame II, but the upper or longitudinalor vertical ends thereof are bent over in the form of eye-loops I6 to pivotally mount them on the short-length transverse portions (4 of the part l'l. This same construction is followed by subsequent parts I lb and l lc. In accordance with this construction, a plurality of garments may be individually supported by the hanger ill by employing each of the parts H, Ila, Nb, and Ho. The pivot action of the loops is permits successively lower parts I la, Nb, and, I la to move outwardly or backwardly with respect to preceding parts, and thus allows succeeding garments to be supported to one side of preceding garments, without in any manner interfering with each other. This construction, seeFigure 6, permits the parts ila, Nb, and 'I I to be folded upon the part II, so that the hanger may be stored in a box or piece of luggage to conserve space when not in use.

It will appear that we have provided a new and improved form of hanger l0 which takes the place of a plurality of individual hangers'to simultaneously support a plurality of garments.

It is particularly advantageous in traveling. We "prefer to form the hanger ID from wire and to so construct it that it, in effect, constitutes a unitary construction whose parts are pivotally mounted with respect to each other.

'Although for the purpose of illustration, we have shown a preferred embodiment of our invention, it will be apparent to those skilled in the' art that various modifications, additions, subtractions and revisions may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of our invention as indicated by the appended claims.

'What we claim is: 1. An improved garment hanger of wire frame construction which comprises, a plurality of pivfotally connected and foldable and longitudinally- 'vertically spaced-apart frame parts, each of said parts having an integral transverse bar and an integral vertical and an integral transverse off- 1 set portion at each end of said bar, a pair of garment clips for each of said frame parts, one clip of each of said clip pairs being slidably mounted on the transverse oflset portion at one end of the bar of each of said frame parts, the other clip' 'of each of said clip pairs being slidably mounted on the transverse offset portion at the other end of the bar of each of said frame parts, the vertical ofiset portions of each of said frame parts being constructed and arranged to prevent an inward transverse movement of said clips with respect to said transverse bars, so that a garment may be held in tension between the clips of each 'of said parts, an upper one of said frame parts having shoulder portions connected by ashank "to a mounting hook, and each of said clips havconstruction which comprises, a plurality of pivotally connected and foldable and longitudinallyvertically spaced-apart parts; each of said parts having an integral transverse bar portion terminating at each of its opposite ends in a short length transverse bar portion integrally connected thereto by a short length vertical stop portion, each of said parts having a pair of transversely spaced-apart and vertically-extendin side spacer portions, each of said side spacer portions being connected at its lower end to one of said short length transverse bar portions; the uppermost of said parts having a pair of transversely-extending and vertically-inclined shoulder portions, each of said shoulder portions being connected at its lower end to an upper end of one of said side spacer portions of said uppermost part, said pair of shoulder portions being connected together adjacent their upper ends by a twist shank, and oneof said shoulder portions extending above said twist shank and terminating in an integral hook portion; each of said side spacer portions of each succeeding one of said parts having a loop eye at its upper end pivotally mounted on the short length transverse bar portion of a preceding one of saidparts closely ad- .iacent the said connected side spacer portion thereof; a pair of spring-closed garment-gripping clips for each of said parts, one clip of each of said clip pairs being slidably mounted on one of said short length transverse bar portions of each of said parts, and the other clip of each of said cli-p'pairs being slidably mounted on the other of said short length transverse bar portions of each of said parts; said verticalstop portions of each of said parts being constructed and arranged to prevent an inward transverse movement of its said clip pair alon its said transverse bar portions to hold a garment in tension therebetween, the vertical stop portions of each of said parts being in substantial vertical alignment with the vertical stop portions of the other said'parts, so that the same width of garments may be supported by each of said clip pairs; the pivot connections between said parts provided by said loop eyes being constructed to permit successively lower garment-supporting portions to move outwardly with respect to each other when said uppermost part is mounted to extend vertically from its hook portion.

3. An improved garment hanger as defined in claim 2 wherein each of said parts is of onepiece bent-wire construction.

CHARLES P. LONGWELL. ANNA MCANANY LONGWELL.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 500,879 Frankel July 4, 1893 1,421,709 Nelson July 4, 1922 1,999,310 Thompson Apr. 30, 1935 

